Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Louis
A. Sass has strong interdisciplinary interests at the intersection of clinical
psychology with philosophy and with literary and cultural studies. His
publications include phenomenological investigations both of schizophrenia and
of modernist and postmodernist art and literature; articles on notions of truth,
interpretation, subjectivity, and the self in the fields of philosophy,
psychology, and psychiatry; and critical analyses of psychoanalytic theory. He
is the author of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art,
Literature, and Thought (revised edition, 2017) and The Paradoxes of
Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind. He also
coedited Hermeneutics and Psychological Theory.
Dr.
Sass has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New
Jersey, and was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation (to Mexico). In 2010 he received the
Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation, for his
scholarly and transformative contributions to the philosophical foundations of
psychological knowledge. Currently, he is a fellow of the New York Institute
for the Humanities and an interdisciplinary-research faculty member in the
history of psychiatry at Cornell Medical College. He is also associated, at
Rutgers, with the Center for Cognitive Science and the program in comparative literature. Dr. Sass has served as president of two divisions of the American
Psychological Association: psychology and the arts, and theoretical and philosophical psychology.
